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José Clemente Orozco
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Mural by Jose Clemente Orozco depicting Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla with a raised arm and torch, standing over a mass of struggling figures, painted above a staircase in Guadalajara's Government Palace. Orozco, José Clemente
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MacKinley Helm, Man of Fire: J.C. Orozco; an Interpretative Memoir (1953, reissued 1971), the earliest major biography in English, is still considered a classic. Alma M. Reed, Orozco (1956), is a biographical account written by an American who had known the artist for many years. David Elliott (ed.), Orozco!: 1883–1849 (1980), an exhibition catalog, is most useful for its collection of critical studies. Orozco and his colleagues are discussed in Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros (1993, reissued 1998).

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Article History

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Anniversary information added. Nov 19, 2025
Anniversary information added. Sep 03, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Biography of Jose Clemente Orozco. Apr 05, 2022
Add new Web site: The Art Story - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jun 14, 2019
Add new Web site: Artnet - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jun 14, 2019
Add new Web site: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Dec 20, 2016
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Jose Clemente Orozco. Dec 20, 2016
Add new Web site: Philadelphia Museum of Art - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Aug 25, 2014
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jan 29, 2013
Added image of the mural of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, painted by José Clemente Orozco. Mar 29, 2011
Added new Web site: Pomona College - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jan 24, 2008
Added new Web site: Dartmouth College - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jan 24, 2008
Added new Web site: Public Broadcating Service - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jan 24, 2008
Added new Web site: Wake Forest University - Biography of Jose Clemente Orozco. Jan 24, 2008
Added new Web site: Mexico Connect - The Drama of Jose Clemente Orozco. Jan 24, 2008
Added new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Biography of Jos� Clemente Orozco. Jan 24, 2008
Article revised. Apr 22, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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